Commentary on ACIM Lesson 245

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

Your peace is with me, Father. I am safe.

Because it was the scheduled once-every-two-weeks opportunity to observe 'the lions den' in action, I walked voluntarily into the local county Superior Court without fear today, for I was not there to stand trial, but only to witness the court behaviors of my generic accusers, i.e., the state's citation writers. I am so glad I did, for after several hours of witnessing 'legal justice' in action...i.e., police officers testifying about the citations they had issued and why, and then defendants attempting to cross-examine those officers, there was in me a huge reduction of concern as the eventual final outcome of my own citation case which has opened up a lot of space to 'explore possibility'. It was, for me, truly a matter of seeing that knowledge is always what makes the difference. And, I underline that that is true inany arena.

The first thing I recognized was that all these officer brothers of mine appeared to have no idea that they were my brother or anybody's brother. All were busy trying to play a very slippery game of 'being right' and therefore making the other being-- the one they were accusing--- be 'in the wrong'. No one questioned the validity of the delusion at all, to them it would be insane to do so.

Inside the game, like in a casino, a few people appeared to win, but if the score were to be well tallied publicly, it would show that is was 'the house' (or the court) that mostly won. And it appeared to me that many times it was because the people before it completely lacked any knowledge of what they could have done.... so they handed themselves over to the mercy of the court, usually to receive a little leniency here or there to make it easier to swallow their big fine.

To briefly report on this subject personally, I have been using the advice of another ACIM teacher named Hugh Prather to guide my actions. His advice, given many years ago in one of his talks in Santa Fe (where we both then lived) was to: 'follow your p.p.'. P.P. means 'peaceful preference', he quickly explained. So, for example, if you became anxious at the thought of writing out a $250,000 check for a Maserati, you didn't do it. But, you might choose, for example, to take a test drive. That you could peacefully do.

So I, applying that, have noticed that I have still not been peaceful about the idea of simply paying the State of California it's financial demand, even though I have been carrying the money around with me to do so. But I was peaceful about going to court today to observe.... that was peaceful, so I did that. And out of that a new peaceful step has occurred...something I learned by observing today--- to ask to have the trial rescheduled so that I have more time for some additional legal study--- like, to learn how to effectively question police officers in court. I will need make the motion to the court in writing, which is a new thing too, but ultimately, it is what all law is about (the written word representing 'reality'). So this adventure which began as a forgetting that the traffic cop was my brother, and a resulting drop into fear... is becoming a faith walk into a new territory, giving me a chance to learn some things 'on the court' of life's legal 'realities'. Without knowing God's long-term purpose for it in my life, I feel my spirit encouraging me to peacefully use this opportunity to become more capable of speaking my Self effectively within the legal fiction forums.

Like the lesson today says, 'send me to them'.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 245

Your peace is with me, Father. I am safe.

Your peace surrounds me, Father. Where I go, Your peace goes there with me. It sheds its light on everyone I meet. I bring it to the desolate and lonely and afraid. I give Your peace to those who suffer pain, or grieve for loss, or think they are bereft of hope and happiness. Send them to me, my Father. Let me bring Your peace with me. For I would save Your Son, as is Your Will, that I may come to recognize my Self.

And so we go in peace. To all the world we give the message that we have received. And thus we come to hear the Voice for God, Who speaks to us as we relate His Word; Whose Love we recognize because we share the Word that He has given unto us.